Verification of Student Identity
The College’s Acceptable Use Policy governs students’ use of account names and login credentials in any classes that have an online component: “An access account assigned to a user must not be used by any other individual. Users are responsible for the proper use of their accounts, including proper password protection and appropriate use of the College’s computing resources. Obtaining another user’s password, allowing friends, family, co-workers, or any other individual use of your or another user’s account, or other unauthorized use of an access account is a serious violation of this policy.” The College may employ a variety of measures, including multi-factor authentication and biometric assessments, to verify that a student who accesses and participates in a class with an online learning component is the same student who registered for and receives credit for that class.
Privacy Information
Cape Fear Community College has procedures in place to protect the privacy of all students and their education records, whether students are enrolled in online learning activities or attend class on campus. Cape Fear Community College protects the security, confidentiality, and integrity of all student records (including online learning students) in accordance with the US Department of Education Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA). Students are notified of their rights under FERPA during student orientation, through the CFCC website, and the CFCC Catalog and Student Handbook. New faculty and staff receive FERPA information during the mandatory new employee orientation. Faculty and staff also receive annual online refresher training on FERPA. Faculty and staff agree to a statement regarding the confidentiality of student records each time they access the College’s student information system (Colleague Disclosure Statement), the College’s electronic means of accessing student records.
The College’s online services employ encryption to protect the data in transit and at rest. Data in transit is protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL), providing authentication of the server, encryption of all data sent to and from the server, and integrity checks of the data. Data at rest is protected by full disk encryption (ex: Bitlocker or AWS EBS encryption). Encryption is used for myCFCC, Canvas, Self-Service, and Google Apps.
All students and employees accessing the myCFCC portal agree to the CFCC’s Acceptable Use Policy.
